Water-gate



(NoHodeL) I. A. NISWONGER.

WATER GATE.

No. 401,456. Patented Apr. 16, 1889-.

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WATER- GATE.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No.401,456, dated April 16, 1889. Application filed February 25, 1888. Renewed March 12, 1889. Serial No. 303,062. (No model.)

To all 1072,0171, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. NIsWONGER, of Cleveland, in the county of Bradley and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ater-Gates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an improved water-gate for small streams, which may also be useful a flood-fence; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, which I will now proceed to describe in connection with the drawing, which shows a perspective view of the invention.

A A are stout posts sunk firmly into the ground upon opposite sides of the stream.

B B are inclined braces having their lower ends driven into the ground and their upper ends fastened to the upper ends of the posts. To the inner side of each post and brace is nailed an inclined strip, G, which forms a bearing for the axis of the gate.

D is the gate, the upper horizontal bar, (1, of which extends past the posts, and is supported in the seats or bearings formed by the inclined strips 0, so as to allow the gate to swing freely. At the bottom of the stream, and extending across the same, is a row of spiling, E E, composed of stakes a, fixed in inclined position, so that their upper ends form an abutment against which the lower end of the gate strikes, and by which the gate is prevented from swinging outward. This row of spiling is nailed near its upper end to a longitudinal stringer, F, extending across 1 the bottom of the stream, while the lower ends of the spiling are driven into the bed of the stream, as seen at E. Where the bed of the stream is rocky and will not permit the spiling to be driven in, the lower end of each stake of the spiling is nailed to a cross-bar, e, as shown at E and rocks are piled upon the spiling to hold it down. In some cases also it may be necessary to hold the main posts A down in the same wayi. 0., the posts are in that case constructed as three-cornered pens, which are filled with stone to hold them firmly when the bed of the stream will not permit the posts to be firmly held therein.

I am aware that it is not new to hang a flood-gate upon a horizontal axis, and I do not claim this broadly.

l-Iavin g thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The inclined spiling composed of stakes at, having their lower ends secu red at the bottom of the stream and their upper ends connected by a stringer, F, and terminating at the vertical line of the gate to form a stop or abutment for the latter, in combination with the water-gate D, having a horizontal axis, the posts A A, braces B B, and strips 0 C, carrying the axis of the gate, substantially as shown and described.

THOMAS A. NISNONGER.

Witnesses:

J NO. T. DE ANNOND, WM. WITCHER. 

